Theoretical analysis of texture evolution in cold rolling process of single crystal aluminum

The crystal plasticity finite element method（CPFEM）, which incorporates the crystal plasticity constitutive law into the finite element method, was developed to investigate the rolling processes of the cubic oriented and Goss oriented Al single crystal. The simulation results show that after rolling the crystal predominantly rotates around the transverse direction（TD） for both orientations. The rotations around the rolling direction（RD） and the normal direction（ND） are negligible. The reduction plays a significant role in the texture evolution. The TD rotation angle increases with increasing reduction. The deformation bands exist in the rolled specimens with the cubic initial orientation. Compared with the cubic oriented specimens, the TD rotation angles in the Goss oriented specimens are very small.